Good Morning, Vietnam

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Director: Barry Levinson

Stars: Robin Williams, Bruno Kirby, J T Walsh, Forest Whitaker, Robert Wuhl

Year: 1987 Running Time: 120 mins Rating:

Irreverent DJ Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) shakes up the military status quo when he is assigned a US Army radio station in Vietnam. Tailor-made for Williams' manic improvisational mugging qualities, you could imagine Cronauer's unorthodox anti-authoritarian rants and curiosity about the people of Saigon winding up American military commanders in Baghdad today. Williams was nominated for an Oscar.

Review

After a handful of films that really didn't exploit his manic comic talents, Robin Williams exploded on to the screen and made this film a scatological one-man show.

He plays a crazy, over-the-top forces DJ who wakes up Vietnam in more ways than one with an irreverent radio show that earns him sacks of fan-mail and the anger of his officer colleagues.

Director Barry Levinson gave Williams his head, so much of the dialogue was either changed or ad-libbed by the comedian to suit his own style and persona.

The result is stream-of-consciousness lunacy and wicked one-liners delivered with machine-gun rapidity (before the plot's developments wipe the smile off his face and ours) and it earned the star an Oscar nomination.